Archetypes of the Soul

In a mystical and magical setting, you will find the creative world of an artist who has created a psychedelic universe enveloped in darkness, where people can explore their own imagination.

Julio Tello, a Mexican visual artist and designer, brought a sample of his work to San Miguel after an exhibit at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. His work is meant to surprise audiences with a type of exhibition not often seen: a dark room, captured only by neon lights, some picturesque works, and music to fit the scene. Tello’s unusual work attracted a large crowd to Dos Casas Garage.

The crowd came to see the exhibition of painting and photography Tello calls Arquetipos del Alma, the result of nine years of study, creativity, discipline, imagination, and dreams. “Archetypes are the way in which a series of experiences and memories concerning ancestors are expressed. In this way, archetypes are patterns of ancestral images and recurring symbols that appear in different forms in all cultures and are part of our collective unconscious,” Tello said about his work.

The mystery of ancestral cultures and their rituals flow in Tello’s work, an explosion of color where the essential archetypes of our psyche, the infinite patterns, the philosophical conceptions, and geometry among build a path that takes the viewer to a universe of freedom and peace, in which they meet the artist to share an unrepeatable moment in time and space.

Attendees were greeted with cocktails, wine, and canapés, as well as 3-D glasses to explore Julio Tello’s creative space in another world. As the night wore on, spectators began to watch live as the artist decorated an assistant’s face with colors that were reflected in the neon light, generating a retrospective of the aftermath of the exhibition.